12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 12 | Freestyle!

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is freestyle. I have thought about this from the beginning. What is one to do when given a freestyle challenge. So many possibilities right? Well I decided to go with 2 different things for this theme. Check it out.

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

Red, White, Black, Light Brown, and Dark Brown Acrylic Paint

NYC - Broadway Burgundy Frost

Salon Perfect - One Love

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Striping Brush

Detail Brush

I think these are by far my favorite of the whole challenge. Isn't Rudolph adorable? Well that's the end of the 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge. I'll be back in a couple days with a round up post. 

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12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 10 | Ugly Christmas Sweater

I have been excited about today's theme of the Challenge Your Nail Art 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge since all the themes were posted. I am a huge fan of PANC (Polish Addict Nail Color) nail polishes and I've been waiting for a reason to use Ugly Christmas Sweater. What better time then now.

My camera made some of the colors a little brighter then they were.

Items Used: 

Pure Ice - Kiss Me Here

PANC - Ugly Christmas Sweater

White, Black, Green, Red, Turquoise, Pink, and Lime Green Acrylic Paint

Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

I tried to incorporate as many colors into the actual nail art that I could find in the glitter. The lime green acrylic paint actually appears to be yellow in the pictures. I will be trying Ugly Christmas Sweater nail art again next year because I love how these turned out and cant wait to try them when my art has improved.

Here's what is next!

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13 days of Halloween | Nightmare Before Christmas

Sadly it is the last day of the 13 days of Halloween. My obsession with nail polish and nail art began 2 years ago today when I saw somewhere online that you could paint Jack Skellington on your nails. Who would have thought, Right? I had to try it out. I had about 4 bottles of nail polish and 2 striping polishes at the time. I wont scare you at the beginning of this post with a throwback picture of that failed attempt at nail art, however, I will post it at the end. I will also mention that at that time I had just found out that I had Psyriosis which had severely affected my skin especially parts of my hands. So when It comes to the last picture of this post, please excuse my skin. So lets get into day 13 with some Nightmare Before Christmas nail art.

 

 

You'll have to excuse the Sally pattern. I had taken pictures shortly before going to bed and when I had woken up the next day to start editing the pictures, they were gone. So over night Sally had gotten a little squished. :(

Items Used:

China Glaze - White on White

ELF - Dark Navy

LA Colors Rapid Dry

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints:

White

Black

Mosaic Blue

Apricot

Pink Eraser

Bright Yellow

Laguna

Now for the throwback. Please remember these were two years ago when I had NO IDEA what I was doing and looking back still have NO IDEA what I was going for. At the time I thought they were the greatest things since sliced bread. Boy was I wrong!

Looking back at this picture I would have never thought that 2 years later I would go from 4 nail polishes to over 700 nail polishes and still be doing this. You can definitely see the improvement. If I only knew then what I know now :).

Well that's it for the 13 days of Halloween series for 2014. I've had so much fun that I plan on doing it again next year. Hope you all enjoyed. Have a great and safe Halloween!

13 days of Halloween | Horror Movies!

I love horror movies so I had to do some horror movie monster nails for day 11 of the 13 days of Halloween. I have monsters from 4 different movies and I love how these turned out. I was sad to take them off.

Items Used:

Index Finger (Sam from Trick R Treat)

ELF - Smokey Brown

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints in Black, Nutmeg Brown and Pewter Grey

Middle Finger (Jason from Friday the 13th)

China Glaze - White on White

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Black

 

Ring Finger (Jigsaw from Saw)

China Glaze - White on White

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Flag Red, Black and White

 

Pinky Finger (Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street)

Sinful Colors - All About You

Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Flag Red and Lite Mocha

 

Pure Ice - Siren was used for the blood splatter

LA Colors Rapid Dry

 

 

2 days left until Halloween. What are your costume or nail art ideas for Halloween?

Inspired By: Nautical Nails

Today's nail art was suppose to go up as the final day of the Let It Snow Challenge as the recreate your favorite from another blogger. I totally spaced off putting them on the blog, so I'm thinking I'm going to have an inspired by series starting with this one.

The inspiration for these comes for Katherine of Rambles of a Polish Addict. She created these for the Let it snow challenge for her stripes challenge. I've been wanting to do nautical for a while so I decided to recreate her nails. So here they are. Hope you like them.

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors-Cold Leather

Sinful Colors-Precious Metal

Jordana Pop Art-The stylist

Acrylic Paints:

Flag Red

White

Tools Used:

Dotting Tool

Nail Art Brush

You can see the original post from Katherine by clicking the link below.

Katherine's Post

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 18 | Tribal | With Tutorial

Today's Let It Snow challenge post is tribal. This was my first attempt at tribal nail art and I went a little simple. I also did a tutorial on how I did this tribal art. I will add what polishes I used at the end of the post. Hope you like.

Start of with a base coat to protect your nails.

Paint your base color and let that dry.

With a gold polish (or color of your choice) and a nail art brush, make two lines down the center of your nail and fill that in.

Take a black striping polish or black acrylic paint and a striping brush and make diagonal line down the center of your gold stripe.

Using a dotting tool or a toothpick, make a dot in between each triangle you just created.

Again, with your black striping polish or acrylic paint and striping brush, make a black line on either side of the gold polish.

Clean up if needed and apply a top coat and your finished!

 Polishes Used:

Fingerpaints- You Yacht To Know Better

Pure Ice- Get Low

Topped with Nail Tek Quicken

Black acrylic paint

Tools Used:

Nail art brush

Dotting Tool

If you decide to create this design feel free to share it with me on my Facebook Page.

See what others did for their tribal design by following the links below.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 17 | Igloos

Wow, 17 days into the Let It Snow Challenge. This has definitely been an experience. This is my second challenge I've done, however, the first was a complete fail. I was still learning things and was going through a lot and making excuses for why each post wasn't making being posted. I was in a funk. Well that funk is well over and I'm proud to say that I've made it this far into the challenge. This will not be my last, as this has been so much fun and I already cant wait for the next one.

With that being said, lets get on to Day 17 with Igloos. When I saw this I said to myself. How does one paint igloos on their nails. So I did just that. I painted an igloo on my nails. Hope you like.

Polishes Used:

Wet N Wild Wild Shine- French White Creme

Sinful Colors- Sugar Rush

Acrylic Paints used:

White 

Black

Bimini Blue

Tools Used:

Nail Art Brushes

I've also switched from a white backdrop to a black backdrop for taking my pictures. I think it made a difference on how the pictures turn out. What do you think compared to other recent pictures of mine? Can you see a difference?

I cant wait to see what others have done for igloos in this challenge, and you can view those by using the links below.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 14 | Stripes

Day 14 of the Let It Snow Challenge was actually inspired by a mani I had seen on Instagram by user @peaceloveandpolish. It didn't turn out the way I had expected and I think the reason for that is at the time of me doing these, my nails were longer than hers. With that being said, here they are. Hope you like.

Polishes Used:

Above the Curve- Arrivederci

Topped with Glossy Glam

Acrylics Used:

White

Bright Magenta

Tools Used:

Nail Art Brushes

Use the links below to see other stripes

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 8 | Candy Canes

Day 8 of the Let It Snow Challenge is a bit late but here it is with the theme of Candy Canes. Hope you like it.

Polished Used:

Stardust Polish- I'm Seeing Red

Topped with Glossy Glam by Rica

Acrylic Paints:

White

New Shamrock

Tools Used:

Nail Art Brushes

See what others did for this challenge by using the links below.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 3 | Penguins

Today is day 3 of the Let It Snow challenge with the theme of penguins. I love the way this little guy turned out. As far as the other nail, they were inspired by Breezythenailpolishlover and her recent massive posting of these. LOL. Although I don't think mine turned out as well but a great start for a first time. Onto the penguin.

Polishes used:

Wet N Wild-Teal slowly and See

Wet N Wild-Listening to blue reed

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear-Breezy blue

Jordana Pop Art-The Stylist
Orange, Black and White Acrylic Paints
 Topped with Glossy Glam by Rica

Tools Used:
Dotting Tools
Nail Art Brushes

Make sure to check out the other bloggers penguins by clicking the links below.

Disney Challenge Day 9: 101 Dalmations

Today is Day 9 of the Disney challenge with 101 Dalmations. I choose to go pretty simple with this one. After my water marble post a few days ago I was pretty polished out for todays challenge.

Here we have the 101 dalmations with an accent nail representing Cruella De Ville.

Polish Used:

Sinful Colors-Snow Me White

Pure Ice- Black Out

Next up in the Disney Challenge is Tarzan. Check out the links below to see 101 Dalmations from other bloggers.

Disney Challenge Day 1: Alice in Wonderland

This is my first challenge...ever. I love Disney movies so this was a great first challenge to do. Day one of the challenge is Alice in Wonderland. Here are my nails inspired by the original Alice in Wonderland movie.

My pointer and ring fingers were inspired by The Cheshire Cat. Middle finger is inspired by The Queen of Hearts. Finally my pinkie finger was inspired by The Mad Hatter. Hopefully as this challenge goes on I will get better. Next up is The Jungle Book. Check out other bloggers Alice in Wonderland nails below.